Dealing with Diabetes2 and remembering Goldi Community Group

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Food you miss the most.

Just thinking about this brings hunger pains. Of course I would say breakfast is my favorite meal with bisquits,honey and fried potatoes. I loved bisquits and honey and butter. Hot fudge also on deserts.

This probably sounds dumb, but I probably miss a loaded up baked potato and birthday cake.
Talk about being a carb freak. No wonder DT2 reared its ugly head. I think back now on the crap I used to eat and it really isn&#039;t any wonder I&#039;m in the spot I&#039;m in now. I just didn&#039;t realize how much of that stuff could be so dangerous when you&#039;ve got those messed up genes lurking inside the body.
It&#039;s funny though that as time has gone on, I find that I miss those less and less for the most part, except when one of my kids&#039; birthdays rolls around.
It&#039;s not the stuffing for the potato so much that I don&#039;t dare eat, but the stupid potato itself.
And, the birthday cake, well it&#039;s actually most any of the cakes that I always made and decorated for just about any family event - birthdays, anniversaries, what have you. I make a killer buttercream icing (not bragging, just repeating what others have told me over the years) and I&#039;m halfway decent at decorating cakes. I don&#039;t do the cakes as much as I did because the temptation is just so hard. So, in that respect, I guess my family and friends are kinda suffering from my diabetes as well. It&#039;s so depressing that these days I tend to buy a cake instead of do it myself which I really miss.
Plus, it&#039;s hard to find a really good buttercream icing in a purchased cake so everybody is a little disappointed that it&#039;s the storebought stuff and not my cakes. So many places are going ga-ga over using the fondant stuff to cover cakes and I&#039;m not a big fan of the stuff. Too many cake shows on TV these days I guess.
There are dietary ways around a lot of the stuff we don&#039;t dare eat, but some things just don&#039;t have substitutes that satisfy the cravings. I don&#039;t particularly miss ice cream because of the CarbSmart stuff. And, I found a really quite good low carb chocolate sauce-syrup (only 4 carbs per serving) made by the Sorbee people, so I can have a pretty darn good ice cream sundae at home. One of the little things I like about the Sorbee chocolate syrup is that it freezes on the ice cream and gets crunchy sort of like the stuff they use on the dipped ice cream cones that makes a chocolate shell.
Of course it&#039;s not something I can get at the corner Marble Slab ice cream shop or Baskin Robbins, so going out for ice cream isn&#039;t in the equation anymore.
Biscuits are on the missed list to a certain degree. I&#039;m a good ol&#039; southern girl and I did love my biscuits, breakfast, lunch or supper.
Now that this has made me hungry for my lunch, I think I&#039;m gonna make myself some veggies with pimento cheese spread and maybe a BLT or a ham and swiss with no bread.
That is after I convince this cat on my desk in front of my keyboard that I should be excused from futher mush duty while he lays on my arms and headbutts my wrist while I&#039;m trying to type.

What I miss most is a great big Idaho baked potato loaded with butter, good rye bread on which to have any kind of sandwich,, bakery cookies, real ice cream, vegetable soup thickened with potatoes, Chinese food, Italian food, paella. I guess I miss everything

There are so many foods I miss and after so many years with our favorites, it&#039;s hard to convince our taste buds not to like them anymore. Maybe I could use a little hypnotic suggestion bured deep in my brain that I now love any and all green vegetables, hate potatoes and sweet stuff. I afraid a battle would erupt between the mouth and the brain and I&#039;d end up with an exploding head. :)

BEfore I found CarbSmart I bought the no-sugar added which meant I had to disguise it and went and bought bottles of Sweet n Low sugar-free syrup. I also put it in the freezer on top of the ice cream but it came out like ice. I am praying CarbSmart is not discontinued. Tomorrow is Monday and I&quot;m calling them. If it&#039;s still in existence then I have to go looking for it since my store doesn&#039;t have it anymore. What a mess we are.

You&#039;d think after so many years I&#039;d get used to not eating the good stuff - but I think I&#039;m worse than 10 years ago. At my last visit to the dr I told him this and he told me I can have something I want once every 2 weeks and then at the next meal just a salad. SO I decided to buy an Idaho potato once every 2 weeks. I can&#039;t eat a whole cheating meal, just one thing. Isn&#039;t that marvelous !!!

Is it Best Life flatout bread?
I never heard of that either but looked it up on line. Sorta like a taco shell thingy but larger. They had different tastes and some have more carbs then others. It says they don&#039;t have to be refrigerated so where are they in the stores?
I wouldn&#039;t mind making a cheese crisp now and then.

You guys can make brown rice and make pork fried rice you know. I do that and add chinese vegies every now and then. Now I like it but at first I didn&#039;t, nothing beats the real thing but we can&#039;t do it. And after awhile it tastes good to me better then nothing.

Sometimes I think &quot;better than nothing,&quot; is the motto for all of us T2D people. We learn to make an awful lot of substitutions that we eventually convince ourselves are as close to the original as we can possibly get. I guess we all do the best we can with what we have to work with and that&#039;s about all any of us can do.

Yes, they are the BestLife Flatouts - they are great - low in carbs and high in fiber. You can get them in the deli dept. of a supermarket where they sell all the wraps. I put everything in them - frankfurters and saurkraut, scrambled eggs, salsa, grilled cheese and pizza.

If I made fried rice with brown rice I would only be allowed to eat 1/4 cup - and I know I could never stop before at least a cup was downed. Anything I love I can&#039;t even taste because as you all know my nickname is &#039;pig&#039;

Well, I checked my Kroger for the wraps, but couldn&#039;t find them. Guess I&#039;ll try a couple of other places next. I&#039;d really like to give them a try because I do miss eating sandwiches.
It&#039;s funny. I grew up eating rice like there was no tomorrow. Rice farming is a way of life for some of our family, so rice was practically holy for us. Now, you can&#039;t pay me to eat white rice even though I love the stuff.
I&#039;ve graduated to the brown rice, like the flavor better and even bought a rice cooker/steamer so I can cook the regular brown rice ( not the instant stuff) without blowing up another microwave. I&#039;ve even made rice pudding out of the brown rice and it&#039;s not bad at all even if it&#039;s made with egg substitute, Splenda and soy milk.
But, as much as I like brown rice now, I do my best to stick with the half-cup serving and no more. Admittedly, I do go over the limit once in a while, but I really try not overdo it.
The rice is something I never thought I could live without, but I&#039;m finding it&#039;s not the worst part of this whole mess. There are other evil things that I crave more.

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